The Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha’at Islam Mosque Keizerstraat () is the headquarters of the
Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam
The Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam, ( ur, , translit=Aḥmadiyyah Anjuman-i Ishāʿat-i Islām Lahore) is a separatist group within the Ahmadiyya movement that formed in 1914 as a result of ideological and administrati ...
in
Paramaribo
Paramaribo (; ; nicknamed Par'bo) is the capital and largest city of Suriname, located on the banks of the Suriname River in the Paramaribo District. Paramaribo has a population of roughly 241,000 people (2012 census), almost half of Suriname' ...
in
Suriname, the Surinaamse Islamitische Vereniging (SIV).
The mosque is located in the
Keizerstraat, adjacent to the
Neveh Shalom Synagogue.
History
The Muslim community of Paramaribo was established in 1929. Its first mosque, a wooden rectangular building with minarets, was completed in 1932.
In 1979 boxing legend
Muhammad Ali visited the mosque.
The current mosque was completed in 1984.
See also
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Islam in Suriname
According to the official data, the Muslim population of Suriname represents about 13.9 percent of the country's total population as of 2012, which is the highest percentage of Muslims in the Americas. Though the majority belong to the Sunni sect ...
References
External links
City of Paramaribo, Keizerstraat 88
Keizerstraat
Buildings and structures in Paramaribo
Mosques completed in 1984
Pakistani diaspora
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